Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2014-3688

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.

EPSS: 0.059 (92.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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